Horseshoe.



PATENTED FEB 27, 1906.

. J. H. STEPHENSMEIER.

HORSESHOE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 22, 1905.

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UNITED srATns PATENT oFFIoE.

JOHN H. STEPHENSMEIER, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI. HORSESHOE.

No. 813,596. Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 23, 1905. Serial No. 275,374.

Patented Feb. 27, 1906.-

T0 aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN H. STEPHENS- MEIER, a citizen of the UnitedStates, resid- 1 g at St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have inventednew and useful Improvements in Horseshoes, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to improvements in horseshoes wherewith isassociated a hoofprotecting plate, whereby the bottom of the animalshoof is saved from injury from stones, puncture by nails, and otherforeign substances. It is obvious that the improvements may be appliedto shoes of the common variety and with equal adaptation to the hoofs ofeither horses or mules.

The novelty will be specified in the description and be particularlypointed out and distinctly asserted in the claims.

I have fully and clearly illustrated my invention in the accompanyingdrawings, to be taken as a part of this specification.

Reference being had to the drawings, Figure 1 is a bottom plan view ofthe improvements as applied with the shoe to an animals hoof, indicatingby dotted lines the position the protecting-plate occupies under theshoe. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the protecting- Fig. 3 is atransverse section through the hoof, plate, and the shoe, showing thecross-section contour the plate assumes when are made a series ofnotches 4, which when the plate is in position under the shoe straddlethe fastening-nails and hold the plate from longitudinal displacement,as indicated E in the dotted lines in Fig. 1 of the drawings. The rearend of the protecting-plate is cut square across, as shown, and extendsfar enough at the rear of the hoof to afford ample protection to thehoof at that particular portion. It will be seen that theprotectingplate covers the whole of the exposed surface of the hoofbetween the limbs of the shoe.

The application of the protecting-plate is apparent. It is well knownthat when the shoe is placed in position the bottom of the l hoof is cutaway for a distance, as indicated in Fig. 3 of the drawings, so thatthere is a space between the face of the hoof and the inner bearingportion of the shoe. Therefore all that is necessary to do to set theplate in position is to insert one edge thereof between the shoe and thehoof and then spring the other edge into the opposite space between theshoe and the hoof, and then if further adjustment of the plate isrequired it may be made by any means.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

1. A protecting-plate for a horses hoof, consisting of a metal platecorrugated longitudinally and adapted to lie over the bottom .of thehoof and cover the same and be positioned over the shoe.

2. A protecting-plate for a horses hoof, consisting of a metal plateadapted to cover the bottom of the hoof, and corrugated longitudinally,and having notches in the side edges to straddle the shoe-nails whenplaced in position whereby the plate is held against longitudinaldisplacement.

In testimony whereof I affiX my signature presence of two subscribingwitnesses.

JOHN H. STEPHENSMEIER. Witnesses:

BURR N. EDWARDS, BERNARD SPoHN.

In the drawings similar parts appearing in different figures aredesignated by the same reference notation.

Reference being made to the drawings, 1 designates the shoe, which maybe made of any of the modern styles, being provided with the usual toeand heel calks and having countersunk channels wherein the nail-holesappear at determined spaces apart.

2 designates the protecting-plate, made of a steel or iron plate andcorrugated longitudinally, as at 3,- and is formed in edge contour tosubstantially conform to the shape of the hoof, substantially as shownin Fig. 2 of the drawings. In each edge of the plate 2

